A lot of America, they don’t want to see people grow up. They love falling in love with little kids and it’s hard to watch them grow up and make mistakes. I’m a 21 year old actress and I originally moved to L.A. not to be on the Disney Channel. I wasn’t discovered at 13 tap dancing in a shopping mall. I moved out and started working professionally when I was 18 and was really just excited to work, whatever the job may be.  And I happened to fall into a great role on a great show and my costars just happened to turn into like three of the most popular heartthrobs in Hollywood at the time.

I’m trying to stay out of the limelight as much as possible. I remind myself that I’m more of a young woman going into this as opposed to a teenager. I think I have a better eye on what to do and hopefully can make some better decisions if I was going through this at 16 I’m sure it would be a completely different story. I definitely try to keep that in mind and audition for other projects that can let me stretch my wings. At the end of the day, I’m just playing characters and I just want to go to work and play dress up for the rest of my life.

It’s nice to have the recognition and to know that people like you. It would be a much different story if they weren’t accepting it and it was a bust. I don’t need to be like Disney’s singing, dancing starlet.  They have plenty that are really, really good at it, and for me, I just like to focus on the acting and the comedy.

Related Posts